Instruction bundling on IA64 and the Intel Assembler
Robert Dewar
dewar@gnat.com
Tue Dec 16 04:58:00 GMT 2003
Richard Kenner wrote:
> A good guide (which few of us can meet, admittedly) is that you should
> be able to understand the most important part of the function just from
> the comments and with all the code deleted.
That's certainly the rule we try to follow. I looked at this particular
piece of code (bundling), and I must say I agree with Richard that it
would be very helpful to have some more high level comments that
describe what the code is doing at a higher level of abstraction than
the code itself. I quite understand that Vladimir doesn't need more
comments for himself, but to me if someone reads my code and notes that
it would be helpful to have more comments, that's a good enough reason
to provide those comments!
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